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[BarkingSpyder]

Legal cars that have technical challenges:
—  Scalextric Challenger TransAm #77:  Top heavy body – lots of reinforcement and thick panels that require lots of grinding to reduce weight.  Flimsy chassis. Need to move lower body parts and bumpers from OEM chassis mount position to upper body.
— Slot.It Gp-C Jaguar:  Older versions- still in stock with retailers, have non-adjustable front axles.  Tribal lore is the chassis is flexy and not many people had success with it.
— Racer Ferrari 512BB:  Great looking car (you can see where GM got the idea for the 1970s Camaro body). Wheel-base and weight is close to the Capri that Marty runs successfully, yet the location of the body weight in the Iggy Azalea rear-end makes handling-tuning a real challenge. You can move weights all over the chassis and just like Iggy it just keeps bouncing!
— AvantSlot RallyCross Imprezza:  Great looking bodies, but the chassis is so flimsy at the motor mount it cracks if you look at it wrong. Try using a HRS2 chassis with it.
— SCALEAUTO 1/32 Analog RTR Honda HSV-010 Super GT #32 with old RT3 chassis.  The chassis is complicated and made of a very flimsy ABS plastic.  Best to use a car with the new “R” chassis which are 2 piece (1-Pan and a 2-SA or Slot.It or NSR pod).  Or order the (not yet available) R-Chassis for the HSV-10.

 

[BarkingSpyder]

I hear that the Cobras legal for Goodwood are hard to tune. We need experienced racers (i.e. Randy’s OGs… old guys) to share some wisdom on cars that have proved to be be dogs.

IMHO – we should Not be listing legal cars if they are known by the OGs as P.O.S.
Why list a technically legal car, if experience has clearly shown it is extremely difficult to setup and tune?  If the OGs want to spank the rest of us by turning a Dawg into a Sleeper – come one with it! But let’s help each other and ‘out’ the Dawgs – and better yet either not list them as a legal  model, or out them in an “advanced” section of the legal list.

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